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RichC

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I don't know if anyone has posted this ... but spotted it in the news of the day.
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The Financial Times reported that GB Sports Car, a company run by a group of former Rover managers, is expected to announce it has raised backing from U.S. financiers to set up a joint venture with Chinese carmaker Nanjing Automobile, which bought the assets of MG Rover last year.


The deal has been delayed because of changes within the U.S. consortium, but sources close to the companies said the deal is now in place. Under the new joint venture, GB Sports Car would restart production of MG TF sports cars and ZT large sedans in Birmingham and import other models from China.


GB Sports Car would also license the Austin Healey brand from Nanjing in order to make its own, more expensive sports cars, the paper added. Austin Healey last made cars in the late 1960s.

Meanwhile, the British government has announced an inquiry into the political handling of MG Rover. It could be seriously embarrassing to the government when details of its role in the sale and demise of the car manufacturer are made public. A separate Department of Trade and Industry probe into the company's collapse is already under way.

What this means to you: A happy end at last? Anglophile car enthusiasts will welcome the return of MG and Austin Healey. But the finger-pointing over Rover's collapse just drags on and on.

https://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=109005


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Not the same IMHO.

MG is dead long live MG!

I say they should let it go.

Anything not made in Abingdton, aint an MG.

the car behind your pic was the last Real Sports Car to come from the UK, not including the TVR or Ginetta/Marcos. And Range Rover has become an expensive ford.
 
The thing I find somewhat entertaining in this announcement is that it seems to have left out the fact that GB Sports Car is comprised of most if not all of the folks from Pheonix Venture Holdings... the people that were running MG Rover when it finally collapsed. The same folks that were badgered for setting up huge trust funds for themselves with company money and not putting it back into the company or its employees.....

oooohhh... I dunno... I think more than "finger-pointing" is going to drag on and on with these guys driving the boat...

ok ok ok... I reread the article and it does say "former MG ROver Managers" but that's a rather ambiguous way of saying "The Phoenix 4"... eh... either way, I personally hope MG makes it back into the US and seeing a rebirth of Austin Healey could be fun as well...
 
The chances of a new vehicle worthy of the MG or Austin or Healey or Austin Healey name are next to nill. My opinion.

The last and final LBC was built long ago, love em treasure them. Leave them to your kids, grandkids or at least someone who shares your dream.
 
I seem to recall that Elise has a nose badge from a company still sending LBC's out the door, Jack /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Thank you Roger!
 
If I'm not mistaken, you can add the Lotus Exige to that list of current LBCs being sold in USA relatively soon /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
"seem to recall that Elise has a nose badge from a company still sending LBC's out the door, Jack "

You mean like Elise the cow?? Now just what the heck is an Elise?
 
Oh my word it's a Lotus Elise. But that's not an MG or AH or such, that's a Lotus and a new one as well. Big $'s and I bet electronic ign, etc.
I thought we were talking about AHs, MGs and such, I was. Heck I like the new Morgan except for the price.
 
try here too...

https://www.grouplotus.com/car/car_product.php?id=1&mid=2

now I KNOW one of those would be a serious head turner in the Niceville/FWB/Valpi (heck possibly even Pensacola and Panama City) area.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif I know I saw *none* while out there on vacation and I see 4 or 5 different ones scooting around the area I work out here.

I remember some gym owner out there owned an Esprit turbo and drove it regularly when I was in high school (Choctaw)... back in the 80s..
 
There were several Morgans in the Hawaii Forigen Car Club many many years ago when Cobras were new. Wife even likes em. Think I will stick with my Bugeye.
 
Isn't the new morgan much the same as the old morgan? (like how long are they gonna keep the same bodystyle)? Must be the oldest run of a particular body ever - except maybe VW beetle - I think they still make those in mexico somewhere.
 
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... Big $'s and I bet electronic ign, etc.
I thought we were talking about AHs, MGs and such, I was. Heck I like the new Morgan except for the price.

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Okay, okay. Point taken... But as much as I rail and rebel against the way things are going, I do think (in the context of "new" car products) Lotus has done a remarkable job of "stayin' alive" in spite of the changes, or possibly DUE to them. After all: the old "team" are gone, never to return... Dam-th-luck... and Toyota makes enough units to choose from, all Lotus "have to do" is what they've always done: make a light, strong chassis and stuff an "appropriate" available power unit into it. All our cars were "pricey" when new, IIRC. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
*sigh*

Thanks... I think. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif
 
Yup, it's not looking very good at all. On top of it all, the lease at the plant is just about up and if they don't renew in 4 weeks - it's all over!

Sad.
 
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www.morgan-motor.co.uk

Dream on.

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Still looks the same to me... No... Wait... uh... Nah, it's still the same morgan, but with the panels updated. It's still cool and I'd love to have one, but outside of them now saving a few cents on the modernised body panels - a Morgan is a Morgan - They've been that way since what 1948?

Plus I saw the test on Top Gear of the new one - Even the british guys who loved it (about 50/50 there) still said it was basically the same car made for decades.

I wish we had an american car show as honest as Top Gear here. Most of the one's here are loving of all the cars - not a proper setup for the consumer. If anyone wants to hire me on as a driver/consultant/reporter of how the cars here perform, let me know. I won't be bought out! I'll give you the real dirt on them!
 
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Isn't the new morgan much the same as the old morgan? (like how long are they gonna keep the same bodystyle)? Must be the oldest run of a particular body ever - except maybe VW beetle - I think they still make those in mexico somewhere.

[/ QUOTE ]There is the new "Aero"(?) Morgan...not quite your father's / grandfather's / great-grandfather's Morgan, although those can still be gotten new as well.

If you're talking about the "old" Beetle, I believe production of those even in Mexico ended a year or so ago. RIP....
 
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